German South West Africa: video worksheets, differentiated.

A very detailed, thorough, and engaging review of this often-overlooked corner of history. The film describes Germany’s Scramble for Africa, German colonies, losses during WW1. League of Nations, Class C Mandate, South African would administration. The Blue Book. German genocide waged against the Herero and Nama-speaking peoples. Blue Book as propaganda at the Paris Peace Conference. British imperial expansion, Cecil Rhodes. South Africa’s influence stifled. Boer Wars. The 1910 Union of South Africa. White racism used to justify colonisation. Boer immigration into South West Africa. Resistance from black people of South West Africa. Namibian Police Zone. The Universal Negro Improvement Association and the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union, esp. in Lüderitz diamond mines. Pan-African movement; an alternative vision for the future. Bondelswarts’ Rebellion thwarted; its effect on Nationalism. All sources fully cited on the YT page.

SFind the film by searching YouTube’s The Great War channel for “Diamonds or Self-Determination? - South West African Nationalism | THE GREAT WAR 1920”. My link omits a brief trailer at the end, the film will stop straight after my sheet’s final question if you use my embedded link.

16 questions for the 20-min film (not inc. the omitted trailer). Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end (of my embedded link), no slack time! Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files. Excellent subtitles, written by a human, not guessed-at by a drunken robot.